The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. David Petraeus Read Quote
Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex. Amelia Earhart Read Quote
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious. Anton Corbijn Read Quote
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. Dorothea Lange Read Quote
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of – oh, it must have been 1942 – ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things. Sheldon Lee Glashow Read Quote
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry. Hallgrimur Helgason Read Quote
In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I’m pretty sure we got hit by lightning. Pete Conrad Read Quote
English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture. Mary Beard Read Quote
